August 14 Board Meeting Recap
At the August 14 Olympia School District board meeting, agenda items included an amendment to the superintendent’s contract and the Outcome 6 Monitoring report. Outcome …
Board Meetings
Why Are We Really Talking About Closing Schools?
At the June 12 Olympia School District (OSD) board meeting, board directors and Superintendent Murphy identified several arguments for why school closure was the only …
Olympia School Board Considers School Closure in 2026/27 School Year
At the school board work session on June 5, the school board Vice President Tourtellotte-Palumbo requested a budget outlining school closures in the 2026/27 school …
Olympia School Board Leadership Table
We asked members of the community to question why the board skipped the regular rotation of leadership. It came to our attention that Board President …
New Board Leadership Installed
In the final board meeting of 2024, the board deviated from its usual practice of rotating Vice President appointments by district. Instead, District 2 representative …
Dare to Lead
According to the Board Work Session Schedule, at 6pm this Thursday: Cognitive Consultancy LLC, will provide a customized leadership training for OSD School Board Members …
JOLT News Publishes Two Articles Highlighting OSD Board Dysfunction
School closure discussions still a topic in Olympia We had this moment at the end of April where the long conversation that we had as …
OSD Board members air grievances about overheard comment
I feel like I have done nothing but apologize for a year and a half for a mistake I made. I made it. I’ve apologized. I’ve done the …
Tensions flare at Olympia School Board summer retreat
I just don’t think, in my own personal experience, that I’ve ever been a part of a process where I had greater political and personal …